German 181st Infantry Division

The German 181st Infantry Division was an infantry division of the German Wehrmacht that was active from 1 December 1939 to 8 May 1945 during World War II. The division's first deployment was in Norway during the Norwegian Campaign of 1940, and, in October 1943, the division was transferred to the 2nd Panzer Army in Montenegro. The division was used for coastal protection and anti-Yugoslav Partisans operations, and it suffered heavy losses during the evacuation of the Balkans in the autumn of 1944. The division ended the war in Bosnia and Croatia.